Anastasius (consul 517)

Anastasius wearing the robes and insignia of a Roman consul. On his right hand, he holds a staff with the aquila, and on his right, the cloth that was dropped to signal the start of the Hippodrome races. From his consular diptych, 517.

He married Theodora, born c. 515, natural daughter of Empress Theodora, although Emperor Justinian I apparently treated her and her son Athanasius as fully legitimate,[3] and had:

Anastasius (c. 530 - aft. 571), married firstly to Joannina, only daughter of General Flavius Belisarius and wife Antonina,[4] a marriage that lasted for eight months when they were forced to separate by her mother and father, without issue, and married secondly aft. 548 Juliana (born c. 533), daughter of Flavius Anicius Probus Iunior (c. 495 - aft. 525), RomanConsul in 525, and wife and cousin Proba (born c. 510 - ), and had by this second marriage:

Flavia Juliana (born c. 590), married to Athanagild (born c. 585), the son of Saint Hermenegild and wife Ingund, Princess of the Franks, and paternal grandson of Liuvigild, the Visigoth King of Hispania[citation needed]

^Syriac Historia Ecclesiastica of John of Ephesus (German transl., p55): "The blessed John, who was sprung from the family of the Emperor Anastasius and also was a son of the Empress Theodora's daughter."

^Syriac Historia Ecclesiastica of John of Ephesus (German transl., p196): "Athanasius, son of the Empress Theodora's daughter." Also, in a German rendering of John of Ephesus, p269, Schoenfelder notes: "Athanasius appears in Bar-Hebraeus as an intermediary between Ascosnagh and Philoponus: he says: 'At that time the Empress Theodora had a grandson, by name Athanasius. . . .'. Also Michael the Syrian., p197: "Athanasius, grandson of the Empress Theodora." (The Secret History of Procopius, Chapter 4. Introduction by H. B. Dewing) The daughter of Theodora is never named in sources despite the mentions of at least three of her sons. (Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 3)